As long as you put a plug in the U-joint to keep the grease in, running
without the long zerk is no problem.
Terrence Banbury
mk III
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> From: Dan Buettner[SMTP:danb@thelittlemacshop.com]
> Reply To: Dan Buettner
> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 9:46 PM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net; triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: which way does bearing face?
>
>
> I'm reassembling my rear axle hubs today, and in the Haynes manual it
> says that the inner (roller) bearing should be installed by tapping
> on the lettered (not radiused) side. Fine. But from which direction
> is one supposed to tap?
>
> Maybe a better way to ask is ... which direction should the letters
> ultimately face -- in toward the diff or out toward the hub?
>
>
> Anybody else buy the d*mn VB u-joints that include a 3/4" long grease
> zerk? Well, the zerk interferes with the travel of the joint.
> Anybody see a problem with simply removing the grease zerk until it's
> time to grease again?
>
> Dan Buettner
>
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